RUBRICS FOR VIDEO PRESENTATION
SECTION: ______               GROUP: ______
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   CATEGORY          Exceeds Standard        Meets Standard              Nearly Meets               Does Not Meet
                           (10)                    (8)                   Standard (6)                Standard (4)
PURPOSE          Establishes a purpose      Establishes a purpose     There are few lapses in    It is difficult to figure out
                 early on and maintains     early on and              focus, but the purpose     the purpose of the
                 a clear focus              maintains focus for       is fairly clear.           presentation.
                 throughout                 most of the
                                            presentation
VIDEO            Video component is         Effective presentation    Presentation adequate      Presentation
COMPONENT        professional, clear and    with information          but moments of             unsuccessful in
                 polished. Actors           presented in a            awkward pauses and/        presenting ideas clearly;
                 present information in     straight forward          or disruptions             actors distracting on
                 engaging manner.           manner                                               camera and take away
                                                                                                 from the presentation.
VOICE PACING     The pace (rhythm and       Occasionally speaks       Tries to use pacing        No attempt to match the
                 voice punctuation) fits    too fast or too slowly    (rhythm and voice          pace of the storytelling
                 the story line and helps   for the story line. The   punctuation), but it is    to the story line or the
                 in the audience really     pacing (rhythm and        often noticeable that      audience.
                 get into the story.        voice punctuation) is     the pacing does not fit
                                            relatively engaging       the story line. Audience
                                            for the audience.         is not consistently
                                                                      engaged.
TIME             The group uses time        The group uses time       The group uses time        The group uses time
                 effectively. The video     less effectively. The     ineffectively. The video   ineffectively. The video
                 does not exceed 5          video is less than 3      exceeded 5 minutes but     exceeded 7 minutes.
                 minutes and not less       minutes.                  less than 7 minutes.
                 than 3 minutes.
PROPS AND        Students use several       Students use props        Students use props and     No props or costumes
COSTUMES         props and costumes         and costumes that         costumes during the        were used.
                 that show considerable     make the                  presentation, which are
                 work/creativity and        presentation better.      somewhat effective.
                 enhance the
                 presentation.
COLLABORATION    The members showed         The members get           The members need           Only half of the
                 respect for one            along well and share      constant reminders to      members does most of
                 another, get along         equally in                stay in task to complete   the presentation. They
                 especially well and        responsibilities.         the presentation.          do not share
                 work together in all                                                            responsibilities and
                 aspect of the                                                                   argue in creating the
                 presentation.                                                                   presentation.
TOTAL SCORE